Word: cab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chevrolet (first in 1938 sales of light trucks): 85 h.p. at prices from $572 (half-ton pickup) to $955.45 (ton and a half stake truck with cab over engine). Feature: for $106.60 extra a two-speed axle for heavy duty...
...cab of the Diesel-powered locomotive, Engineer Edward Hecox, who had driven the flyer ever since she started her regular 39 ¼-hour Chicago-San Francisco run in 1938, watched for the steeply palisaded curve near Humboldt River bridge. Nearing the curve, he throttled down...
Next day, snaking through the grandest mountain scenery in North America, the King and Queen enjoyed another royal prerogative, that of riding in the cab of the lead locomotive of the train's snorting "triple-header." Ahead lay three days of full-dress dignity in Vancouver and Victoria, before the swing back to the East for their visit...
...just a strong link in the Broadway chain, the Cotton Club doops a lot of colored hotcha and horseplay. Though much of the old animal verve of Harlem has given way to routine Broadway showmanship, the show has winning headliners in Tapster Bill Robinson (see col. j) and Crooner Cab Galloway; a pleasant surprise in Hymn Swinger Sister Tharpe; plenty of jungle...
...York, New Haven and Hartford tracks near Newington, Conn, last week stood a work train with a power shovel mounted on a flat car. In the shovel's cab was Operator Burrell Wilhelm. His foot slipped and he fell against a control lever. At that moment a Montreal-Washington express, full of people who had gone to Canada to see the King and Queen of England, shot down the track. Burrell Wilhelm's cab swung out into the express train's path. It bounced off the locomotive, cut through the side of a day coach, tore open...